Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, June SCH, 1SS

WASHINGTON, June 9Th, 1887.
The soldiers of the National Drill
have folded their tents and marched
away to the strains of their own
thrilling music, and in consequence,
the Capital City is not so gay as
last week, and many of our bonny
bellies, with love lorn cighs and
misty eyes, pine over the lost hopes
and opportunities for conquest of
those few fleeing days, while num-
bers of the visiting troops have been
totally vanquished by the charms of
the fair ones. Except in finan-
cial sense, the Drill was quite sue
cessful. The deficit is from $4,000
to $4,000. The managers counted
on an average attendance of 10000,
though it was 5000 or less. Some
propose to make the drill permanent
by having one every year, and it is
hoped the project will materialize.
If there be another, we trust the
Confederate Democratic South will
send liberal, progressive men here
instead of the narrow-minded, pro-
vincial numskulls who considered
themselves such superior beings
that they felt it pollution TO march
in the same military procession with
the hated though harmless "nigger,"
and therefore dropped out of line.
Able financiers, with good reason,
predict a financial crisis when the
movements of the present crops
begin, based upon the fact that
within the past year, the New York
banks have increased their rate of
interest from 2 per cent, while their
reserve surplus has very largely de.
creased, and also, upon the further
facts, that the immense surplus in
the Federal treasury continues to
rapidly accumulate, without any re.
lief from the burdensome taxes ex-
acted from the people. Thus, at the
end of two years, we are sensibly
feeling the benefits to business and
public policy of a reform (?) Demo
cratic Administration. Really, Un-
Gle Sam is so seriously i'll from his
nauseous dose of Democracy that it
is highly probable an extra session
of Congress will have to be called
early next fall to administer an
antidote.
The recent death Of Mai. Ben
Perley Poore, the pioneer Washing
ton newspaper correspondent, re.
moved familiar and prominent
figure from the Capital. For forty
FIVE years he has been intimately
associated with the great statesmen
of the country, from Clay and Cal
houn to Blaine and Lamar-he hav-
ing been for twenty-five years clerk
of the Senate Printing Committee,
years after he had become leading
journalist.
Decoration Day was observed
with unusual eclat, the soldiers of
the National Drill acting as escort
to the Grand Army of the Republic.
For the first time, the grave of that
gallant hero and patriot, John A
Logan-he who instituted this glori.
GUS day--was buried by loving
hands in mass of beautiful flowers,
only five months after he had sur
rendered his noble soul.
There is still much speculation as
to who will fill the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench. The place is by
common consent conceded to the
South. There is but one certainty
in it; Garland, the Cabinet member,
who long since was promised the
first vacancy, will not get it, since
his corrupt connection with the
Pan Electric Telephone Company
has been disclosed, for he now says
he will not have it, which means he
cannot get it, as the President, with
all his bulldog courage, could not
afford to run the risk of wrecking
his Administration by decking the
Supreme Court with such a malod.
orous Garland.